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Windows 7 Forgets mapped drive credentials
Does anyome else find that that win7 continually prompts for username and password of mapped drives - apparently ignoring the "remember my..." check box?
- Changed TypeMark L. FergusonMVP, ModeratorThursday, February 05, 2009 11:19 PMbug , sent feedback
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- I've seen that after hibernate/suspend actions and resuming the network connection.
eq. connected drivemapping, hibernate laptop.
Resume after 15 minutes, and with a working (webbrowsing/MSN works) network connection, Explorer pops-up for credentials for the network share.
My laptop is domain-joined, btw.
- It does the same for me. Forgets the drives every reboot. So I simply map them then dont restart, lol.
- Yeah, same issue here, it won't remember them forever, just for that session.
- this is the same for XP, at least it does this to me from a computer in a workgroup mapping to a share in our domain.
Is this a bug then?
If its a 'feature' we have to write a script to retain the mapping each time eh? - Not very good as the password would be clearly visible in the cmd or vbs file.
Does anyone know any other work-arounds?
- Same is happening for me as well. This must be a bug, there is no way this would fly in an enterprise environment.
- Craig9876 said:
Same is happening for me as well. This must be a bug, there is no way this would fly in an enterprise environment.
Sure it fly in an enterprise environment lol. We spend a lot of time remapping network drive in enterprise environment where I work. It seem to be a 8 years standing bug with Microsoft!The weird thing is that linux workstation using SAMBA do not suffer from this bug!
- Really? I've been working in a Windows environment for a long time, and have never had that problem with my users.
- Yep really
Let's say a user need to connect to a network drive that he hasn't use for a long time and boom it does not work anymore!
Then we just disconnect that network drive delete the link and redo it.
Sure it happen a lot and in a lot of different location and company too.
- It used to work for me in Vista and XP. It's jaw-droppingly rubbish to have to map each time. Isn't the whole point of mapping for it to be, well, mapped!?
- I'm in the same situation, it works flawlessly in Vista and XP so it must be a bug. Not to worry, it will be fixed.
- I have been having the same problem ...
I just found the "Credential Manager" in the 'Control Panel'
(Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\Credential Manager)
I can't guarantee that this will fix everything, but so far so good!
- D-TrainCanada Your fix worked. Nice job, and thanks, I was getting sick of continually entering my credentials.
- D-TrainCanada,
This didn't work in my case. We are trying to map a Domain controlled share using different credentials than what the user logs in to the network with. No matter how we set it up either as a Windows credential or as a generic credential the mapping fails upon reboot and the drive must be disconnected and remapped. I hope someone figures this out soon, or it may delay our roll out of Windows 7 in our Enterprise.
Thanks
B - Fix does not work in my case either and all computers are using the same credentials they use for user login, not different ones yet upon reboot it continually prompts for username and password of mapped drives ignoring the "remember my..." check box. One does not have to remap, but one does have to continually re-enter user/pass to get to drives after reboot or even sleep.
- Update,
We fixed the issue we were having here. It turned out that the mapping was for our FTP server and that box is not on the domain. We needed to include the box's name before the credentials just like if you are signing into a domain. Once we added the System name\username and then password, all was good.
Thanks
B - Same here, it's driving me mad having to enter password all the time when I start a new session of VS studio 2005 using VSS web. Used to be able to save the password in the password manager, but that function doesn't seem to work anymore either.... :(
Update,
Thankyou!!!! This has been driving me crazy for weeks!
We fixed the issue we were having here. It turned out that the mapping was for our FTP server and that box is not on the domain. We needed to include the box's name before the credentials just like if you are signing into a domain. Once we added the System name\username and then password, all was good.
Thanks
B
Fred 666 - your company needs to look at what they're spending their IT delivery dollars on my friend. What you describe is in no way normal.- The solution that puts the domain name first works.
you have to enter things in this format
username: RemoteDomain\username
password: password
"RemoteDomain" will show up listed under "Domain:" and if you check the remember box it will not forget them.
if you do not enter the remote domain, the default settings are:
username LocalMachine\username
password: password
and no matter what it will forget them on the next logon.
...at least it worked for me - Thank you!
I typed "Credential Manager" in the windows search box and added
Address: \\NetworkAttachedName
Login: \LoginName
Pass: ******
The \LoginName starts with "\" so that windows doesn't use the current domain or machine name as a domain name in the login (which would be Domain\LoginName)
I couldn't add the box to a domain because the box is an Apple AirPort with attached hard drives
Sten
